The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-06

GEORGIA.
On the Altamaha the rice crops are being
harvested as fast as possible.
Alfred Smith (colored), who killed Joseph
Allen (coloredD, at Darien a few days ago,
has been held without bail to await trial
The owners of the oil mill property at
Waynesboro have decided that it was to
their interest not TO run the mill this
season.
H. w. Dews, of Newman, says that bull
bats are destructive of cotton He says
field of cotton in his neighborhood, belong
ing to Mr.. Joe Dent, was completely devas-
tated by bats three or four years ago
Walt Rowland, of Americas, found an
egg Friday with a long tail to it, The tail
curled back and joined the SHE'LL after run
ming out two inches Rowland says his hens
are fancy and fastidious and he thinks the
eggs will prove it,
At Srnithville Jack Manns little child
was choked TO death last Wednesday. The
mother was shelling peas and the child
swallowed one, which lodged in It's wind
pipe. The mother seeing it was choking
picked it up and ran to DR.. Saunders house,
which is several hundred yards away, but
when she arrived at the Doctors the child
was dead
j. f. Billups, of Worth county, lost his
Clubhouse by fire Friday afternoon, Mr..
Billups estimates his loss at from 81, 900 to
S., 500. The building was first-rate one,
and cost between 81, POO and 81 800 without
the machinery. About six bales of cotton
and between 900 and 200 bushels of cot
ton seed went with the building and ma
chinery. There was no insurance on the
property.
]. p Robinson, of the firm of Crow &
Robinson, returned to Rockmart last Friday
to Hamlet, from his recent trip. He paid
off the hands at the ore mines and his ac-
count with Greater & Burgdorf at forty
five cents on the dollar. The lime quarry
men were not paid off by him and grum-
bled considerably. The men at work at the
quarry quit work last Friday and refused
to work any longer unless they were paid off
About 100000 feet of square and scab
timber was measured at the public BOOM at
Darien, during the month ending Aug. 81,
1887. This does not, of course, include the
several millions of feet that passed
by going to st. Simons, and the
which came down from the up-coun-
try mills. At the present time there is quite
q large stock of timber at some of the
booms around the city. The timber in
spectors and measurers will break up their
pooling arrangement on Jan. 1, 1888. After
that day every man will be for himself.
A farmer living out mile from Ameri-
Gus planted few acres of old worn out gray
land in melons this year. He worked the
vines once or twice, just enough to keep
down the grass and weeds, the total cost of
planting and cultivating not exceeding $40.
From this patch of melons he has realized
$500 cash, which came in at a time when
money was scarce and hard to get. He has
forty-five acres planted in cotton, from
which he will get twenty bales, but he says
that the melon patch will net him five times
h. t,nff
latter was carefully worked and at compare
lively small cost.
Miss Macarthur, of Eastman, was thrown
from buggy Friday and instantly killed.
Mr.. Pierson, her escort, was dangerously in
jured. Miss Macarthur, who was niece of
Mr.. Macarthur, of the Legislature, was en-
gagged TO be married to Mr.. Pierson, and
their wedding was to take place at the resi-
dence of Tap Holt, in Macon. within "a few
days. The young mans father, who is quite
wealthy, had built the young couple an ele-
giant residence and furnished it with every
modern convenience that would add TO their
comfort. They started Friday morning to
drive to their new home in a buggy, and on
the way the horse ran away. Miss. Near
thur was thrown out and instantly killed.
and Mr.. Persons shoulder was dislocated.
Near Athens, ON a beautiful and COM
manding site, stands what is commonly
1t is the property of the State University,
and was formerly used as high school for
boys preparatory to entering the collegiate
course. Years ago the high school was
abolished. the building being used subse-
quently as the home of the professor of
agriculture. Surrounding and belonging
to the Rock College are about sixty acres Of
good land 1t is here that the present ex-
perimental farm of Georgia is located Il
is proposed that the trustees of the univer-
sity, for valuable consideration, turn over
this property to the State of Georgia, to
become the proposed home of Confederate
veterans, reserving some twenty acres for
the experimental farm.
Robert Hardrove, black and muscular
was arrested at Macon Saturday night and
locked up for engaging in a fight and Great
ing considerable disturbance. He was
placed in a cell at the police barracks,
where he remained the sole occupant all day
Sunday. Sunday night about s o'clock
Officer Abel, seeing the form of a man dart
suspiciously away from the window of a
cell, looked in and discovered that two of
the iron bars had been removed from the
transom over the door leading into the hall
way. An investigation was then made by
Officer Abel and Officer McCafferty, who
was doing duty as Waterman at the time
and it was discovered that Hargrove had
torn up the floor of the cell, and with one of
the boards had so bent the iron bars that il
was left an easy matter to take them out.
They had been literally torn out Of their
sockets.
Griffin was visited last week by Harrison
Clarke, an aged negro who had been MP there
TO see his brother, Hardy Jordan, who lives
just below the caIshed in that city. Har-
rison Clarke is a pretty good age himself,
being 106 years old, but his brother is 1l6
and unable to be about. Harrison was on
his way home to Muscogee county, Edwards
district, and may have reached there if his
large, sore feet have not prevented He
was the slave of Josiah Jordan, of Mon
roe county, and was at one time at
Louisville, when he saw Gen. Wash
ington, who came to the then State capital
soon after the war for Independence He
saw something of war himself as a drum
mer boy during the Florida Indian war,
though a fourth Indian by birth Before
emancipation he was the overseer and valet
of his master. He can pick $50 pounds of
cotton day on an average, old as he is, and
is a champion wrestler his favorite trick
being the "Flying Sallie." Although an
anti-Prohibitionist in principle he never
tooE drink; neither did he ever take
chew of tobacco or bath. He has had
seven wives and thirty-three children, in
GLIDING six lots of twins.
The State Anatomical Board has filed the
bonds required by law, and is ready TO re